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in: Nanobiotechnology for Sustainable Food Management, Eduardo Alberto López-Maldonado,Amber R. Solangi,Fabio Granados-Chinchilla, Editor, Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group, Florida, pp.1-20, 2024
Pesticides, widely used in agriculture, are chemicals to prevent, reduce, or eliminate harmful organisms. Although pesticides seem beneficial, they harm humans due to their toxic effects in uncontrolled and excessive use. Pesticide analysis is of great importance in reliable and sustainable food management. Determining pesticides detected using different analytical methods in low amounts and sensitively is crucial. These methods often require expensive equipment, sample preparation, and professionals familiar with the instrument. Nanobiotechnology, which has made significant progress in recent years, has a wide range of applications, especially in pharmacy, medicine, engineering, and agriculture, to examine, analyze, and produce nano-sized structures. Biosensors are simple-to-use, low-cost devices that convert a biological response into a measurable electrical signal. Nanomaterial-based biosensors, which contain gold, silver, titanium, carbon nanotubes, graphene, graphene oxide, and titanium and include their hybrid structures, and which are used in the analysis of many substances, including pesticides, have the feature of increasing the selectivity and sensitivity of the research while facilitating or eliminating the sample preparation step. In this chapter, scientific literature studies on the use of nanobiosensors in pesticide analysis will be discussed. In this study, nanobiosensors will be classified as nanomaterials used in their production under the applied analytical method.